{"product_id":"que-peindre-what-to-paint-adami-arakawa-buren-9789058677921","title":"Que Peindre?\/What To Paint?: Adami, Arakawa, Buren","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean-François Lyotard | Herman Parret | Gérald Sfez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven writings assembled in the context of the philosophy of art that Jean-François Lyotard developed in the 1980s, at the time of the \u003ci\u003eDifferend\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) and of the \"Kantian turn\" leading to the \u003ci\u003eLessons on the Analytic of the Sublime\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), are here published for the first time in English translation. The texts focus on three artists with widely divergent aesthetic orientations: the colorist-draftsman Valerio Adami, the conceptual metaphysician Shusaku Arakawa, and Daniel Buren, the \"pragmatist of the invisible.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These three protagonists share the notion that the interest in art does not lie in the simple denotation of a frame of reference, but in the connotations of material nuances, in flavors, in tones--in one word, the visual, that is barely revealed in the anamnesis that guides the visible and provokes the essential inquietude of the aesthetic experience. \u003ci\u003eWhat to Paint?\u003c\/i\u003e Not reality or a \"world,\" nor a rich subjectivity, nor even the phantasms of dreams or ideals of being-together, but the act of painting itself, and, beyond the performance of the painter, the presence of matters, a presence that in Arakawa's word is quite obviously blank, elusive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leuven University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969617281175,"sku":"9789058677921","price":10465.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789058677921.webp?v=1782922849","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/que-peindre-what-to-paint-adami-arakawa-buren-9789058677921","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}